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JOHN HODGMAN – Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

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“Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award” at the Boston Public Library

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Author/environmentalist BILL McKIBBEN at Harvard Book Store

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“Thanks To Shakespeare” with CHRISTOPHER RICKS

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WALTER ISAACSON on Leonardo da Vinci

CELESTE NG Little Fires Everywhere in conversation with SONYA LARSON

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Memoirist ANNE EDELSTEIN in conversation with JOANNA RAKOFF

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REBECCA MORGAN FRANK: Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country

CLAIRE MESSUD: The Burning Girl

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Author and Vanity Fair editor CULLEN MURPHY talks memoir with ALEX BEAM

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.